Hosea

We may divide this beautiful closing chapter of Hosea’s prophecy into three grand parts. In the first (verses 1-3), the Holy Spirit points out...

The same strings are harped upon in this chapter as in those before, although they generally produced a distasteful melody to the ears of the...

This chapter begins with a reproof against Ephraim, or the Northern Kingdom of Israel, for feeding himself upon the wind – that is, feeding...

In these last four chapters of the Book of Hosea – starting here with chapter 11 – the emphasis is upon one note: the love of God. Prophesying...

“Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people,” says the prophet in the opening verse of this chapter. And why not? Because they had been...

This chapter is like the last; it divides itself into the sins and punishments of Israel. Almost every verse declares both, and the purpose is...

A practical disbelief of God’s government was at the bottom of all Israel’s wickedness; they acted as if Jehovah could not see it and did not...

The closing words of the foregoing chapter gave us some hopes that God and His people, notwithstanding their sins and His wrath, might yet be...

In this chapter, the prophet’s special message was directed against the priests, the people, and the king. It was a national word to Israel as...

Prophets were sent to be reprovers – to tell their people of their faults; and to warn them of the judgments of God, to which their sins had...

Through His prophet, the Lord is still inculcating the same subject upon His careless people; and still in the same manner as before – that is,...

In the last chapter, we heard the Lord saying, “Lo-ruhamah” and “Lo-ammi” – thereby declaring that His unfaithful people were no longer His...

The prophet Hosea was the Divinely inspired penman of the first of the twelve Books in the Word of God which bear the name of the Minor...